SSRN Electronic Journal, Год журнала: 2019, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2019

Politicians rely on political brokers to buy votes throughout much of the developing world. We investigate how social networks facilitate these vote-buying exchanges. Our model suggests that should be well-placed within network learn information about citizens, and non-copartisans' reciprocity is particularly valuable target transfers effectively. As a result, parties recruit who are central among non-copartisans. combine village data from citizens with broker reports vote buying. show diffuse politically-relevant leverage it transfers. In particular, those not registered their party, reciprocal whom they can more through network. Moreover, recruited significantly than other non-copartisans, but copartisans. These results highlight importance diffusion for buying ultimately outcomes.

Язык: Английский